Lawsuit Against Zango Dropped; Zango Declares Supreme Victory
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Written By Kate Zimmermann | September 8, 2006 | Share This
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The plaintiffs in Logan Simios, et al. v. 180solutions Inc., who’d been trying to convert their suit to a class action, today decided to call the whole thing off instead. Ordinarily we wouldn’t pay much mind to the withdrawal, except it produced some interesting claims from the defendant’s brass.
ClickZ reports that Zango CCO Ken McGraw was doing some serious crowing today, saying that the action “serves to confirm that Zango’s desktop advertising software is not spyware in any shape or form and that our innovative business model is entirely legitimate.”
Um, no it doesn’t. Continuing:
“We have maintained from its inception that this case had no merit. The dismissal vindicates that position.”
If you say so. As far as the plaintiffs are concerned, though, all it means is that they didn’t like their chances for class action approval. It doesn’t legitimize Zango’s business model any more than it makes them emperor of the planet Jupiter, which might be what they were going for when they switched names from “180Solutions” earlier this year.
Or maybe it was to distance themselves from practices that give us the case of the willies. Their questionable resume includes a fishy click fraud scheme allegedly perpetrated via Yahoo, and landing on the Center for Democracy and Technology’s list of adware abusers. More recently, they were accused of tricking people into installing videos on MySpace pages that contained Zango’s adware…Techdirt has a pretty good rundown of the firm’s most recent run-ins with bad publicity.
The thing is, we’d probably be more inclined to mark down the Simios lawsuit dismissal as a win for Zango if they hadn’t gotten all ‘pro-wrestling interview’ about it. That much bravado simply isn’t justified, and might be indicative of deeper problems at a company that can’t seem to shake its rep as a broker of annoying scams.
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